The Importance of Being Idle

Road Runner

It's been a long week.
For those who've expressed an interest, I didn't get round to watching a movie on Saturday night, I just started Halo 2 again on Heroic, which was surprisingly entertaining until I started to wish I'd played through the original one again. Still, that's just typical Libran indecisiveness.
Sunday we went to the Charnwood Druid group's Mabon celebration over in Leicestershire. As with summer solstice, I didn't take part, but it was still a nice ritual and Shaz seemed to enjoy it. Afterwards we were all invited back to the group leaders chalet out in the countryside, which was lovely. One of the group members had brought a harp (which she played beautifully) and let Shaz have a go and even though she wasn't playing any sort of tune at all the tonal quality of the instrument is such that it STILL sounded amazing. And we've been invited to a masked ball at the end of October. Which is nice.
I started my new employment at 6.30am on Monday morning, and have worked pretty much flat out all week. I must've put in between 5o and 60 hours this week; it's been hard work. Oddly though, it's been enjoyable work; for all that I arrive home physically exhausted at night, I don't have that soul destroying feeling that I always seem to get from every other job I've ever had, most notably my recent stint with Diligenta. In fact I was thinking today that I always used to envy the people whose job took them out and about during the day, rather than having to be all cooped up all the time, and now I AM one of those people! So after one week, it's all good. Apparently I'll be being trained up on another couple of jobs at the start of next week, and then finish the week with more of the sub-contract delivery stuff I've been doing this week.
After I got home this evening I nipped out in the car to pick up a few bits, and I have to say, after spending the week in a long wheelbase Sprinter, driving my lovely little Focus feels an awful lot like driving an armchair. The contrast between the two was a very odd experience indeed.

posted by BadMonkey @ 8:25 PM